Baking A Sweet Life

I was terrified when I saw this recipe. It was **6** pages long!! I’m still terrified of this recipe! I loooove baking, but I don’t care for recipes that carry this many steps - I mean, that’s THAT many DIFFERENT places for my baking-red-thumb to go nuts. I think I still need more practice with this recipe! I could’ve had more practice with this recipe if I hadn’t procrastinated. I really was frightened! All in all it came out well. (please forgive the awful quality of my pictures!!! I thought I had white balanced well enough, but the dim lighting masked the appropriate WB).
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It’s that time again! Except this time I feel like a fool. Somehow I had it in my head that this month’s posting was to be done on the 31th (last day of the month, just like last month, which was my first time participating). But my assumption was wrong, and I just realized it today. I went to a few of my favorite DB‘ers sites and saw that they had put theirs up yesterday. I initially thought that they must’ve been breaking the DB rules, (gasp!!) but it was I that hadn’t paid attention. To my fellow DB’ers, I apologize!

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You know the crust on really good restaurant bread that is so crunchy and crackly that it flakes into a ton of pieces when its cut, and is perfect to scoop up soup or sauce? That is this bread’s crust. This bread is so tasty and so fantastic - I wish you all could’ve tried it at 2 hours and 1 millisecond after it came out of my oven. (It had to cool for that long!) This is my very first Daring Baker’s Challenge, and one that I was super excited to try. My beginnings in the baking world were bread making - I’ve even got a pricey bread class scheduled across the country in California next week. But there was something about this recipe that was so intimidating. I’m pretty sure its the fact that they recipe/instructions were like 8 pages long. Who would’ve thought that a recipe with only 4 ingredients would be so complicated? This month’s challenge was recreating Julia Child’s French Bread recipe. This month’s hosts were Mary and Sara.

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